Transforming Fluid Resuscitation in Intensive Care Health Research Award
A research project driven by clinicians at Royal North Shore Hospital over more than 20 years has been nominated for a NSW Health award. Professor Simon Finfer with Associate Professors Anthony Delaney and Naomi Hammond led the initiative in collaboration with colleagues at RNSH, The George Institute for Global Health and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group.
The project involved a series of large-scale clinical trials to determine which intravenous fluids gave critically ill patients the best chance of surviving their illness. Through their work they were able to determine best practice, confirming the best fluid approach for individual patients. Professor Finfer, a senior intensive care physician, said the results of their ground-breaking research have been incorporated into national and international clinical practice guidelines, saving many thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars. “The research has delivered enormous health benefits to the people of New South Wales, and more broadly to communities across the world,” he said. “With so many people receiving fluids when they come to hospital, even small differences in how they affect the risk of death and other outcomes are important.”
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No Suppression Group Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services Award
Paula Hanlon and the ‘No Suppression Group’ project has been named as a finalist in the ‘Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services Award’ in the NSW Health Awards.
This award recognises and showcases work in improving the quality and safety of mental health patient care within programs and services. “I am so excited,” said Paula, Manager of Ryde Consumer Services who co-founded the group 13 years ago. No Suppression brings together people with lived experience of mental health issues to share their creativity and build social connections. They currently meet monthly at Macquarie Hospital. “The group is about offering a safe space for people to share their creativity, whether it’s through poetry, music, art and comedy. We sometimes have joke offs — the longest joke-off we had went for 46 minute,” said Paula.
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